There Will Come Soft Rains

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow, published in 1920 (see 1920 in poetry). The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished, . The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war (lines 10 and 12), which was not commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons, 25 years later.

^Conversations with Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis - 2004- Page 107 1578066417 "The one that comes to mind first is 'There Will Come Soft Rains,' which is about a house in the future that goes on living after the city is destroyed